Duncan, Thanks for the info. Unfortunately this sounds like a lot of
bother -- my interest in LyX is mainly curiosity. I'm not quite curious
enough to do all these steps. I'll wait until someone rolls a simpler
install.
Gene
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Duncan Haldane wrote:
> >On 14-May-98 Gene Wilburn wrote:
> >Just downloaded the latest Lyx from hurricane/contributions
> >and get this message when I try to install:
> >failed dependencies:
> >libforms.so.0.86 is needed by lyx-0.12.0-2
>
> I had this problem too as I have the latest
> xforms-0.88 (NOT 0.86) installed.
>
> I tried to install with
> rpm --nodeps -Uvh lyx-0.12.0-2.i386.rpm
> It installed, but lyx didnt work.
>
> I had to rebuild the lyx rpm from the source rpm
> lyx-0.12.0-2.src.rpm to get it to work with
> xforms-0.88 .
>
> Also, I found that it needs to be rebuilt with
> the latest development (beta) rpm
> rpm-2.4.109 (an rpm for this has beem
> put in hurricane/contrib by the packager of
> the lyx-0.12.0-2 rpm). The spec file uses
> a few fancy new macros that the stock RH5.0
> rpm can't handle.
>
> Unpack (rpm -Uvh) the lyx-0.12.0-2.src.rpm
> cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> then do
> rpm -ba lyx*.spec
>
> It takes a while to compile, but this produced
> (for me) a working LyX rpm.
>
> It installs with the stock redhat rpm, so you can
> uninstall the bleeding-edge rpm-2.4.109 and reinstall
> the non-beta rpm after rebuilding, if using the beta
> release worries you.
>
> Good Luck!.
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